Posted on 06/04/2021 4:51:32 AM PDT by Liz
It has finally dawned on Biden that he barely controls the House and the Senate. His swipes at Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema were notable less for how they publicly aired an intra-party dispute than for their utter banality. “I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’ “Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.”
------ a defining feature of his presidency is that one of the headlines at the end will be, “The President Had Vaulting Ambitions, Frustrated by Razor-Thin (and Perhaps Temporary) Legislative Majorities.” FDR had a historic majority in the House and a healthy majority in the Senate, which is what made it possible for him to be FDR. Needless to say, he wasn’t complaining that a couple of wayward Democrats were keeping him from doing anything shortly after the completion of his 100 days.
........although many voters surely believed they were electing someone like Manchin — an old-school pragmatist who would object at overturning a long-standing Senate practice in a headlong rush to try to match the legislative output of transformational progressive presidents.......on high-profile issues like the $15 minimum wage and the HR1 voting bill, Biden’s problem isn’t getting to 60 votes to overcome a filibuster; it’s getting to 50 for a simple majority.
That the White House has been so willing to try to negotiate with Senate Republicans on infrastructure is probably a sign that it doesn’t have 50 votes for the current Biden proposal, either.......the simple fact that Biden doesn’t have enough votes in Congress — never did and never will. Twitter: @RichLowry
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After the 1933 election the split was 58D-36R-1 Farmer-Labor party in the Senate and 311D-117R in the House.
1932 election, starting in 1933. oops.
Bttt
A lot of this incoming Democrats for 1933....led back to the Bonus Army riot of 1932, and significant criticism dumped on President Hoover. Historians avoid this discussion a good bit.
I wouldn’t gloat too early. Obama had his fair share of early failures, but he still managed to foist Obamacare on the country after a period of time.
Those days are gone for the foreseeable future.
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the stronger individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradnally induced, by a like motive, to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful. It can be little doubted that if the State of Rhode Island was separated from the Confederacy and left to itself, the insecurity of rights under the popular form of government within such narrow limits would be displayed by such reiterated oppressions of factious majorities that some power altogether independent of the people would soon be called for by the voice of the very factions whose misrule had proved the necessity of it. In the extended republic of the United States, and among the great variety of interests, parties, and sects which it embraces, a coalition of a majority of the whole society could seldom take place on any other principles than those of justice and the general good; whilst there being thus less danger to a minor from the will of a major party, there must be less pretext, also, to provide for the security of the former, by introducing into the government a will not dependent on the latter, or, in other words, a will independent of the society itself.
For those who don't feel like reading this book, here's a very clever video in which John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek come back to life and have a hip-hop argument about economics:
Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek - The Original Economics Rap Battle! (7:32)
The Filibuster is the only thing standing in his way. They have already crossed the Rubicon by stealing the election. Their only path to success was to seize total control. They are now facing the possibility of some consequences and it has the Swamp TERRIFIED
LOL........beautiful.......love, love, love it.
........the Swamp is TERRIFIED.........
Good news to be sure......love it with my morning coffee.
Plus they lost the june 6 eternal victimhood commission.
H1 freeforall steals- is also shaky.......if not downright dead.
Enter Trump who pulled ALL of that together. Not everyone was happy...the gay libertarians and traditionalists were not comfortable but they were united on gun rights. And so on. And it was VERY effective and incredibly unifying, and would have enhanced the liberty and quality of life for ALL walks of life, even the woke pod-eaters who hated Trump.
THAT is why we got this election result and President* Biden.
Harris..waiting...waiting...waiting.......
Interestingly, the FDR administration continued Hoover's policy of refusing to immediately pay the bonus that the rioters were demanding.
A lot of people come to this conclusion, but it’s really a mess that Congress made when the WW I bonus was made in 1924. The Act said that the certificates to all participants of the war....would come up in 1945...giving them 21 years before the day arrived.
So in 1931...articles and radio chatter started up about this bonus being out there. For most vets, especially if they were overseas for bulk of the period, it’d mean $500. So the idea was pushed....why not hand the bonus out now.
Hoover had no control over this, but the GOP senate/house could have written some waiver or maybe a 50-percent pay-out. They did nothing. So when spring of 1932 comes...the thousands of vets began to show up in DC. Whole thing was orchestrated by people that disappeared after the riot in July of 1932.
Act was rebuilt in 1936 (four years after the riot and before the next election) by the Democrats. Certificates were replaced by bonds...which were redeemable at any time. Republicans could have done the same thing, but failed.
Riot cast Hoover in a very negative light and his campaign never recovered.
Forgotten Man--The Warner/Vitaphone Orchestra (1933)
Joan Blondell. What a dame!
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